Apache Beam Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Apache Beam
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apache Beam skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 340 408
Rank change year-on-year -67 +68 +57
Contract jobs citing Apache Beam 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.007% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.040% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £433 - £425
25th Percentile £464 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.89%
75th Percentile £500 - £588
90th Percentile - - £625
UK median daily rate £500 £717 £525
% change year-on-year -30.26% +36.57% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.10
25th Percentile - - £33.63
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £48.63
90th Percentile - - £51.70
UK median hourly rate - - £41.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Apache Beam falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,574 2,487 3,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.03% 18.50% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,399 1,585 2,297
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £407 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £597
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 55 154
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.26 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -15.38%

Apache Beam
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Beam relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Apache Beam job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apache Beam
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Beam.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apache Beam

Apache Beam
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Beam within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 4 £494 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £494 - 1
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Apache Beam
UK

Apache Beam
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 4 (80.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (40.00%) Real Time Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google